October 2011-KS

Holy Cross, Wichita- October 18, 2011&Bethany, Overland Park- October 20, 2011

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Workshop Agenda

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9:00 Meet & Greet

• Help yourself to donuts
• Opening Devotion & Prayer Sarah Young called Jesus Calling
• Housekeeping
  • Registration information for Mid-America Computers in Education (MACE)
  • Create a Google account if you don't already have one
• Today's Goals
  • Identify teacher's immediate needs
  • Brainstorm short-term and long-term goals
  • Nurture our Professional Learning Network
  • Create and/or further develop a classroom web-presence

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Presentation/Discussion - "Digital Footprints"...not to scare, but to make aware:)

• What is something about technology that simply amazes you?

What is our responsibility as educators to teach students about digital citizenship? Online safety? Online activity? How can we use the capabilities of the internet to glorify God? Share the Gospel?
Click on the following link, How secure is my password?, to determine just how secure your password really is.

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Professional Learning Network

• Reflect on last month's workshop and the weeks following...
  • Share an "Aha!" moment you experienced in your classroom using a new tool or resource. How did it impact your students, your parents, or you as a teacher?
• Spotlight Tool: Edmodo
  • Review and address any questions or problems
  • Explore other features: a poll, quizzes, & calendar events
  • Search for an educational link, then post to the entire TEC21 group

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Break

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Keynote Tool: Classroom Web Presence

• Describe what your ideal classroom would consist of...
• 21st Century classrooms for 21st Century learners, parents, and teachers...

TeacherWeb	3rd Grade, Christ Lutheran
Google Sites	1st & 2nd Grade, Zion Lutheran
Weebly	Kindergarten Website, Bethany Lutheran
Blogger	First Grade, Holy Cross Lutheran

• Explore, create, play & discover with a new or existing classroom website

"Little or No Prep" Tools

Google forms	Google forms make planing events, giving students a quiz, or collecting other information an easy task. A Google form is automatically connected to a spreadsheet with the same title and displaying the results. See 80+ Google Forms for the Classroomfor ideas to get you started.
The Way Back Machine	An amazing website that helps find long lost treasures, like USD259 SMARTBoard Lessons Yea!!!
Symbaloo	A social Bookmarking Site that makes searching for, organizing, and sharing bookmarks extremely easy. Check out these Google education tools/apps to get you started!
Chrome Education Apps	The Chrome Web Store is an online marketplace where you can discover thousands of apps, extensions and themes for Google Chrome.
The Google Art Project	Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of art works at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.
	Godtube.com is a video sharing platform offering online Christian videos with faith-based, family friendly content.
Cool Tools Duel	25 cool tools for the classroom!

"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think." ~~ Bill Beattie

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11:30
Lunch

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12:30
Project/Lesson Idea Development

2:00 Reflection & Wrap-up!
Homework: What did you take away from today's workshop- a tool, a resource, an idea, or something you are thinking about in education? Share what comes to mind with another teacher or your principal when you get back to school- even if it's in passing in the school hallway.